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When I started my Windows 8 laptop from sleep, I have noticed this happened. I tried to shutdown the laptop by holding the power button down. The issue happened twice, until I forced it off and let it say there was a startup problem. Once that happened, it started up fine. While the machine is fine now, what causes this in Win8? I don’t want to upgrade it to Win10 if I can avoid it since I have no real need to, and Win8 is good until 2023. Update: new problem. This happens every hibernation boot.
Hi @nick As usual, backup important data first. if you have bitlocker, Remember to suspend protection for everytime you perform a major patch, e.g bios updates. I encountered this before, sometimes due to bad drivers go to dell and lookup support with your service tag.. Check for any drivers updates, especially on graphic card and chipset, wireless, ssd, etc/ check on msconfig, etc sometimes bad programs can cause this. lastly check for any bios updates.
